Nurses in California have come out ahead in a fight to increase the state-mandated nurse-to-patient ratio. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently abandoned a lawsuit to set the ratio 1-to-6. As Lisa Napoli reports, the current 1-to-5 ratio is being considered by other states.

The Senate Finance Committee takes up a proposal today to cut taxes at the same time Congress is considering cutting social programs to reduce the deficit. As John Dimsdale reports, critics see a contradiction between the two efforts.